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Letters Patent No. 71,911, dated December 10, 1867; antecZatecZ November 25, 1867.

MULTIPLYING-REPLECTORS FOB. PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.

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Be it known that I, D. W. S. RAWSON, of the city of Peru, La Salle county, State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Multiplying-Retlectors for Photographic Cameras, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon marked.

Figure 1 shows the reflector-box, base-board, and camera, with their relative positions.

Figure 2 shows a single reector, and its connection to the cross-bars of the box.

Figure 3 shows the lever used for adjusting the reflectors.

The nature of my invention consists in arranging the reectors in a box which protects them from crosslights when in use, and from dust and handling when not in use; also hanging the mirrors ona universal pivot, so as to be easily moved by a small lever; and also preventing the lapping of one image on to the other, by intruding between the mirrors a nonretlecting surface.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

I prepare a box, A, of-sucient size to contain all the mirrors to be used when arranged in rows and' properly separated; with doors B B, which, when opened, serve as shade-wings; and crossbars C C, to which are attached the redeotors E E, by means of the wire right-angles H H. The reflectors are of polished metal or plate looking-glass, and separated from each other from one-sixth to once the width ot' the reiectors, forming the division marked D D, which must be made as near photographically dead or non-reflecting as possible, by black paint or otherwise, as any reflection from between or outside the mirrors produces dimness of the pictures.

The reflectors are arranged in numbers corresponding to the number of images it is desired to produce at each exposure, and are adjusted by the lever L inserted in the hole O, shown in iig. 2. The reflector-box` is usually attached to the end of the base-board F, which is of suiiicient length to also hold the camera. But when it is desired to make more than one set of impressions on the same plate by moving the reectors, the reflector-bex is attached to the slide G, which is attached to the board F by the pivot I. The reectors E E are mounted upon blocks, and fastened in the clamp S S by screws. The double-pivot H, with a screw at each end, allows the mirrors to be easily turned to all the necessary angles by the lever L, which may be of any convenient size, and, it' used in front of the mirror, can be easily detached from it.

When it isidesired to use the reflector-box, it is placed upon the camera-stand facing the subject, and the camera placed upon the base-board F, with the lens facing the reflectors, and the base-board turned suiiiciently to allow an unobstructed passage of light from the subject to'the mirrors; the 'operator then, with the lever,

`adjusts the several mirrors to each reflect the image to its proper place on the ground glass of the camera, and' when al1 are so adjusted, the camera. is focused, and the plate exposed in the usual way.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The reflector-box A, the doors and shade-wings D B, the bars C C, the non-reccting division D D, surrounding and between the severalmirrors, the base-board F, and the slide-board G, and the double pivot H, when used for the purposes herein described.

2. I claim the use'of the lever for the purpose of adjusting the reflectors.

3. I claim the moving'of the reflectors with the slide G, to produce more than one set of impressions on the same plate, or an equivalent movement.

D. W. S. RAWSON.

Witnesses:

M. E. L. GnUsBUon, E. EICHHORN. 

